Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 236 283
Rank change year-on-year -78 +47 -72
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 493 580 956
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.37% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.48% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 216 307 527
10th Percentile £40,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,633 £56,745 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,771 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,875 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year +0.92% +6.47% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,238 39,252 82,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.66% 92.86% 85.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41,831 22,645 59,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,516 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -76 451 £66,771 -4.61% 325
London +29 280 £85,000 +9.68% 206
Work from Home +42 243 £69,501 +6.92% 145
UK excluding London -167 157 £63,076 +0.92% 149
North of England -35 64 £75,000 -3.23% 29
North West -4 38 £85,000 +13.33% 16
South East -127 29 £51,750 -26.07% 44
Midlands -47 26 £60,000 -2.04% 23
Yorkshire -52 23 £63,076 +94.08% 10
West Midlands -30 20 £58,750 -6.00% 11
East of England -13 19 £60,100 -7.54% 21
South West -82 16 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands -48 6 £152,500 +190.48% 12
Scotland -35 4 £55,000 +22.22% 9
North East -40 3 £63,076 -23.54% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 -
Wales -28 2 £72,251 +20.71% 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 15 (3.04%) Confluence
3 10 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.41%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) CICS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (7.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 25 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.41%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (4.06%) Workfront
2 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.41%) Magento
4 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.41%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 79 (16.02%) AWS
2 58 (11.76%) SaaS
3 47 (9.53%) Azure
4 34 (6.90%) iPaaS
5 21 (4.26%) GitHub
6 20 (4.06%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.85%) Pulumi
8 17 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (2.43%) GCP
10 10 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.83%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.62%) Figma
13 7 (1.42%) Asana
14 5 (1.01%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.81%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.81%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.81%) Miro
15 4 (0.81%) OpenShift
16 3 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (12.17%) Broadband
2 28 (5.68%) HTTP
3 12 (2.43%) WAN
4 11 (2.23%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.83%) LAN
6 6 (1.22%) RTP
7 5 (1.01%) Network Security
8 4 (0.81%) Firewall
8 4 (0.81%) NGN
9 3 (0.61%) MPLS
9 3 (0.61%) Multicast
9 3 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.61%) Wireless
10 2 (0.41%) VPN
10 2 (0.41%) WLAN
11 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
11 1 (0.20%) DNS
11 1 (0.20%) SAN
11 1 (0.20%) Skype
11 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.91%) Metadata
2 19 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 19 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 19 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.65%) Power BI
4 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.01%) Tableau
5 4 (0.81%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.61%) Big Data
6 3 (0.61%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.41%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.20%) DB2
Development Applications
1 27 (5.48%) JIRA
2 19 (3.85%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.41%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 174 (35.29%) Finance
2 162 (32.86%) Social Skills
3 152 (30.83%) Marketing
4 89 (18.05%) Banking
5 83 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (13.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (12.37%) Retail
8 53 (10.75%) Law
9 50 (10.14%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (8.72%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (5.68%) Back Office
12 27 (5.48%) Legal
13 26 (5.27%) Public Sector
14 24 (4.87%) Financial Institution
15 18 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (3.25%) Manufacturing
17 14 (2.84%) Italian Language
17 14 (2.84%) Retail Banking
18 13 (2.64%) Digital Economy
19 11 (2.23%) German Language
Job Titles
1 147 (29.82%) Product Manager
2 85 (17.24%) Senior
3 73 (14.81%) Lead
4 54 (10.95%) Product Owner
5 45 (9.13%) Senior Manager
6 38 (7.71%) Senior Product Manager
7 29 (5.88%) Development Engineer
7 29 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 28 (5.68%) Software Development Engineer
9 22 (4.46%) Developer
10 19 (3.85%) Consultant
11 17 (3.45%) Product Lead
11 17 (3.45%) Senior Development Engineer
11 17 (3.45%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 17 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (2.84%) Business Consultant
13 14 (2.84%) Business Development Consultant
13 14 (2.84%) Development Consultant
14 12 (2.43%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.09%) REST
2 19 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.81%) Keras
3 4 (0.81%) PyTorch
3 4 (0.81%) TensorFlow
4 3 (0.61%) CSS
4 3 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.61%) HTML
5 2 (0.41%) Spring
5 2 (0.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.41%) YAML
6 1 (0.20%) JSON
6 1 (0.20%) Next.js
6 1 (0.20%) Playwright
6 1 (0.20%) PySpark
6 1 (0.20%) pytest
6 1 (0.20%) React
6 1 (0.20%) RESTful
6 1 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 136 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.92%) Social Media
3 36 (7.30%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (7.10%) Cloud Native
4 35 (7.10%) Over-the-Top Content
5 29 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 25 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (4.26%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.85%) Management Information System
9 15 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.43%) Web Conferencing
11 10 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.42%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.42%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.42%) Podcast
13 6 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.01%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.87%) Linux
2 19 (3.85%) Unix
3 6 (1.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (61.46%) Roadmaps
2 224 (45.44%) Agile
3 147 (29.82%) Product Roadmap
4 107 (21.70%) Product Vision
5 104 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (21.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 100 (20.28%) Decision-Making
7 98 (19.88%) Mentoring
8 96 (19.47%) AI
8 96 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
9 81 (16.43%) User Stories
10 79 (16.02%) Product Strategy
11 70 (14.20%) User Experience
12 67 (13.59%) Customer Experience
13 63 (12.78%) Product Backlog
13 63 (12.78%) Product Requirements
13 63 (12.78%) Software Engineering
14 61 (12.37%) Analytics
15 56 (11.36%) DevOps
16 55 (11.16%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.75%) Java
2 30 (6.09%) Python
3 25 (5.07%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.06%) Go
5 19 (3.85%) Bash
6 11 (2.23%) SQL
7 6 (1.22%) Bicep
8 3 (0.61%) R
9 2 (0.41%) PHP
9 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) C#
10 1 (0.20%) COBOL
10 1 (0.20%) JCL
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (15.42%) Degree
2 23 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.06%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.42%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.42%) HNC
8 6 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.22%) HND
9 5 (1.01%) MBA
10 4 (0.81%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) CCNA
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.41%) ACCA
12 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.41%) CIMA
12 2 (0.41%) CISM
12 2 (0.41%) CRISC
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.87%) QA
2 13 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.42%) GDPR
5 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.01%) PMO
6 4 (0.81%) SLA
7 3 (0.61%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.61%) NCSC
7 3 (0.61%) PERC
8 2 (0.41%) GRC
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.41%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) GMP
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (4.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.20%) RACF
2 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (6.49%) Terraform
2 22 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.85%) Ansible
3 19 (3.85%) Argo
3 19 (3.85%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.72%) Adobe
3 33 (6.69%) Google
4 9 (1.83%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.62%) Cisco
6 7 (1.42%) Oracle
7 5 (1.01%) Dell
7 5 (1.01%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.81%) Databricks
8 4 (0.81%) Foundry
8 4 (0.81%) NVIDIA
8 4 (0.81%) Toshiba
9 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.61%) CQG
9 3 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.61%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.61%) Patsystems
9 3 (0.61%) Reuters
9 3 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.61%) Tenable